The Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence opened in 1983, but AI
research at the University of Texas began years earlier with
pioneering efforts by Woody Bledsoe and Bob Simmons. The Lab has
expanded to seven faculty in core areas of AI, about 50
Ph.D. students, numerous research staff, and a dozen affiliated
faculty in related departments.

We continue to investigate the central challenges of machine
cognition, especially machine learning, knowledge representation and
reasoning, and robotics. Our faculty and graduate students are some of
the best (the Lab was ranked fifth in the country by US News). We
invite you to browse our research projects and reports, visit us in
Austin, and make the Lab your intellectual home as a professor,
researcher, or graduate student.